SOC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Social Conflict, Rationality, Proletariat

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1100
• Professor: Deanna Behnke- Cook

Document Summary

Society: people who interact in a defined territory and share culture. Gerhard and jean lenski: society and technology. Karl marx: society in conflict, we are in constant conflict/competition with one another, and only then is when we decide to do something about it and make change. When you are content with a situation, you don"t change anything. Max weber: the power of ideas shaping society. Change occurs from the exchanging of ideas. Emile durkheim: how traditional and modern societies hang together. Every one of us needs every one of us to survive. Sociocultural evolution: the changes that occur as a society gains new technology. Societies range from simple to the technology complex. Leads to a division of labour and inequality. See g-d as directly involved in well-being of the world: horticulture: use of hand tools to raise crops, pastoral: the domestication of animals. Tend to stay in one place more in order to help raise the animals.